Creating Comics!

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Creative Process

Establishing quick action, setting, and characters separated by

color, the heavy shadows frame the action [left]. I highlighted

characters moving into the building by their previous color

schemes, and intensified the image of the gun with the red lights.

Title: Party Bear, p. 25

Media: Ink on paper, Photoshop

© Paul Maybury

Two police officers discuss racism in a car [above left]. We

look through their eyes at the city shown in different lights and

neighborhoods in three panels. With equal focus, you read

through the dialogue in a zigzag pattern, fully absorbing the art

in each panel.

Title: Party Bear, p. 20

Media: Ink on paper, Photoshop

© Paul Maybury

P

aul Maybury is an award-winning artist from

Boston, Massachusetts. He was born in 1982, and

grew up in Jamaica Plain, where he attended the

Boston public school system, an experience that is reflected

in the subject matter of his work. Despite not being accepted

by his local art college, he pursued comics after spending six

years as a muralist. He began to be published as a comic

book artist in 2005.

Paul Maybury

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Creating Comics

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Creative Process

Establishing quick action, setting, and characters separated by

color, the heavy shadows frame the action [left]. I highlighted

characters moving into the building by their previous color

schemes, and intensified the image of the gun with the red lights.

Title: Party Bear, p. 25

Media: Ink on paper, Photoshop

© Paul Maybury

Two police officers discuss racism in a car [above left]. We

look through their eyes at the city shown in different lights and

neighborhoods in three panels. With equal focus, you read

through the dialogue in a zigzag pattern, fully absorbing the art

in each panel.

Title: Party Bear, p. 20

Media: Ink on paper, Photoshop

© Paul Maybury

This page’s composition introduces characters and surroundings

by staying centered and moving down [above right].

The final three panels end in a transition panel that introduces

the next page in a separate scene. This was a recurring storytelling

style in Party Bear.

Title: Party Bear, p. 14

Media: Ink on paper, Photoshop

© Paul Maybury

in the subject matter of his work. Despite not being accepted

by his local art college, he pursued comics after spending six

years as a muralist. He began to be published as a comic

book artist in 2005.

Paul Maybury

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Paul Maybury